best solo seat for nightster?
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best solo seat for nightster?
looking for a nice comfortable solo seat for my nightster. that will make long rides much more enjoyable. i read a lot of people use the sundowner... but that looks like a two seater to me. i also read some like the mustang solo... but i dont think that the metal trim will look good on the nightster... any other suggestions?
Road Captain
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From: Milwaukee
RE: best solo seat for nightster?
there is a mustang vintage solo wide that looks good, low pro, and all black. there is also corbin hollywood solo. these are dyna seats but i am guessing they have sporty models as well. they are each around 4 hundo i think
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RE: best solo seat for nightster?
You could also just wait till winter or when your not riding as much and send your stock seat off to http://www.meancitycycles.com/faq.htmland have it reshaped and made more comfortable for less than a new seat would cost.
Tourer
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RE: best solo seat for nightster?
ORIGINAL: capttawes
You could also just wait till winter or when your not riding as much and send your stock seat off to http://www.meancitycycles.com/faq.htmland have it reshaped and made more comfortable for less than a new seat would cost.
You could also just wait till winter or when your not riding as much and send your stock seat off to http://www.meancitycycles.com/faq.htmland have it reshaped and made more comfortable for less than a new seat would cost.
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RE: best solo seat for nightster?
ORIGINAL: jterp
Not to change the subject, but capttawes -- is your spring seat comfortable at all?
ORIGINAL: capttawes
You could also just wait till winter or when your not riding as much and send your stock seat off to http://www.meancitycycles.com/faq.htmland have it reshaped and made more comfortable for less than a new seat would cost.
You could also just wait till winter or when your not riding as much and send your stock seat off to http://www.meancitycycles.com/faq.htmland have it reshaped and made more comfortable for less than a new seat would cost.
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Tourer
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RE: best solo seat for nightster?
ORIGINAL: capttawes
Comfort is a relative term with a thin rigid mount seat. While spring mouting it might help the jolts its actually not bad for rides of less than 100 miles and pretty much the same comfort of a Lepera barebones seat. I run a sundowner for long hauls and rides with the Mrs.. Thinking about getting the SD reshaped and mem. foam added this winter, might also get an HD stock solo seat and have it re-worked. The spring style seat is purely looks and short rides.
ORIGINAL: jterp
Not to change the subject, but capttawes -- is your spring seat comfortable at all?
ORIGINAL: capttawes
You could also just wait till winter or when your not riding as much and send your stock seat off to http://www.meancitycycles.com/faq.htmland have it reshaped and made more comfortable for less than a new seat would cost.
You could also just wait till winter or when your not riding as much and send your stock seat off to http://www.meancitycycles.com/faq.htmland have it reshaped and made more comfortable for less than a new seat would cost.
Have you ridden on a barebones seat to compare ? That's what I have now and it is pretty rough after 50 miles or so...
Love the looks of yours.
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Road Warrior
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RE: best solo seat for nightster?
Hey Jterp,
My mount kit is a Jammer/West Eaglekit through Custom Chrome #632492 and is rigid not spring and the leather seat came from http://motors.search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZchoppahead1970. V-Twin Mfr. and Licks cycle both make the spring mount kits which are nice and I almost wish I had the Licks but they wanted $169+ shipping just for the front and rear mount plus springs. You can get a their kit with a small vinyl seat for just over $200.
To swap out all I need to do is pull the fender and tank bolt and it all comes off in one piece, replacebolts and then put the SD on. Sounds like trouble but really only takes less than 5 miuntes and it's not like I swap back and forth daily. As for riding on the Barebones...only sat on one never went for a ride with one but the foam density and thin profile is about the same and is about 1" thick. The seat is 12.5" wide by 15" long so that helps.
My mount kit is a Jammer/West Eaglekit through Custom Chrome #632492 and is rigid not spring and the leather seat came from http://motors.search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZchoppahead1970. V-Twin Mfr. and Licks cycle both make the spring mount kits which are nice and I almost wish I had the Licks but they wanted $169+ shipping just for the front and rear mount plus springs. You can get a their kit with a small vinyl seat for just over $200.
To swap out all I need to do is pull the fender and tank bolt and it all comes off in one piece, replacebolts and then put the SD on. Sounds like trouble but really only takes less than 5 miuntes and it's not like I swap back and forth daily. As for riding on the Barebones...only sat on one never went for a ride with one but the foam density and thin profile is about the same and is about 1" thick. The seat is 12.5" wide by 15" long so that helps.